Stupidfresh

The Record Ends and We Must Begin Again

2010-03-25T20:50:00.027-04:00

Greetings Stupidfresh family and friends, and welcome to the 300th post of Stupidfresh.com! As some of you are already aware, I've got some exciting news to share with you in regards to the site. I'm packing up and moving my website to:

MatthewLipstein.com

This is my brand new website that will carry on the traditions started here on Stupidfresh, and will be my playground for a whole new batch of shenanigans. I've had a blast creating it and I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

By all means please go and explore matthewlipstein.com. But if you're interested in any back-story of how I got here, enjoy some explanation and navel-gazing below.

Why the change?

Stupidfresh has been great to me and we've had a lot of fun. A few months ago, Blogger (which powers this site) announced they were changing the way my website would work, and for a large number of reasons I just wasn't down with keeping my site on Blogger.

At first I was simply annoyed by the reality of having to make major changes to the website. After some simmering however, I took the chance to step back and examine my online presence and persona. Why do I have a website to begin with? What's the point? How do my contributions to Twitter, and my other blogs play into this? Who reads all this stuff anyway?

What I began to understand is the content I share online allows me to explore elements of who I am. We're all multifaceted individuals, and for whatever reason I've embraced the opportunity to show a few sides of myself on these here Internets.

But as of late I've felt that I've spread myself out a bit thin. A Stupidfresh blog rant here, a work Tweet there, and maybe a video of Theodore to round out the day. There are too many outlets segmented for too many specified purposes.

It became clear that it's high time to bring together all of these areas under one banner. The new site is configured to pull all my different worlds together on one website. But how does it work? I'm glad you asked.

Under the Hood (For my nerds and the people who love them)

I had a lot to consider when thinking through how to put this all together. Some of my criteria included:

Backend - Who has time to hand-code anymore? Give me a strong CMS for publishing
Mobility - I want to create all styles of posts while out in the world, either from a computer or simply my phone
Cross-posting - The key to my quest was finding a way to post in one place and have that be mirrored on my website, and vice-versa
Simplified Workflows - Beyond the work it initially takes to configure and design the site, this should all run itself moving forward.

It turns out that a service called Tumblr affords me all of these things. Their web & iPhone posting tools are simple and powerful. They have built-in import tools that will grab anything I share on Blogger, Twitter, and the like and automatically post it on matthewlipstein.com. As a bonus, Tumblr also has it's own social network between Tumblr blogs. Tumblr users can follow each others sites and "like" each others posts.

To get a sense of what's coming in and what's going out, I created this schematic. Yes, this is the type of stuff I think a lot about. [Click to enlarge the image]

Basically, I've tried to design my "one site to rule them all".

See You on the Other Side

I'm looking forward to seeing how this all develops, what's going to happen next and I'm hoping you'll join me for the ride. Nothing will be deleted from Stupidfresh - all these posts will still exist online, but all new content will be going down at the new site.

You can subscribe to updates to the new site either via email or an RSS feed.

Thanks to all who have read and supported Stupidfresh in the past few years. Let's keep it going full steam.

Lady in Red

2010-03-22T21:03:00.001-04:00

Been meaning to post this for a few weeks . Saw this blast of color during the snowpocolypse.

The secret of my (hopeful) success

2010-03-13T23:52:00.000-05:00

Things that make you go hmmmm...

2010-03-10T19:02:00.003-05:00

So here's an update on the ongoing analysis/transition of my online identity. I've been finding a lot of power in these resources:

Nathan's comment on my previous post, and the similar thread on his site.
I've been liking the presence and design approaches taken by Jason Permenter's site and the Flavors.me service.
I keep going back to Merlin Mann's "Better" essay. This is really helping me focus on the point of all these Internet shanningans. Carve out a few minutes and go read it on his site.

Last night I started the process of migrating elements of this here Stupidfresh blog over to the Blogger servers (that's how all this craziness started in the first place). One tactic I'm considering is just leaving the current iteration of this site as an archive (Stupidfresh Classic if you will), and moving on.

Tumblr has been really intriguing to me as a very efficient, light-weight, on-the-go method of continuing to post online. Hmmmmmm.

One key to this mess would be to find the tools that will cross-post well. That will allow these different modalities to play nicely together, and wil build in redundency. Hmmmmmmm.

As before, I'm struggling with "what's it all for"? Nathan makes the point that blogs used to be the place to "just spill", but now there are plenty of places to do that. So maybe my goal is to Rube Goldberg all of of my spills into one pitcher. Hmmmm.

Domain names, hosting, history, ownership, ease of use and more booshy you coudl imagine come into the mix here, but I digress. I am getting closer.

Post Script: Please pardon the public multi-post monologue here. In addition to working this through, I'm also hoping to gain your perspective (yes, you!) . So hit me off with a comment or an email.

Park Ave Party

2010-03-05T16:21:00.000-05:00

Which way to go?

2010-02-27T09:43:00.005-05:00

Hello Stupidfresh fans & friends. Long time no talk!

Next month Blogger is making some changes to the way my site is setup. In short they're forcing some restrictions on how I publish to Stupidfresh, and that will change the look of the site, the way people access SF and the archiving of all the old posts. Nerdus explanation maximus: I publish using their CMS backend in conjunction with a hacked HTML template (that I'm quite proud of), which uploads any posts via FTP to my own hosted webspace. They are about to forbid that.

They offer a tool that will rebuild my site on their servers, and then direct any traffic to Stupidfresh back to them. I've already seen some people who have gone through this Blogger migration and it seems tumultuous at best. When I set this all up a few years ago, I spent a long time tweaking their system (in ways it apparently wasn't supposed to be tweaked), to make it work the way I wanted. And now all that is for naught.

So here I am, at my 295th Stupidfresh post using Blogger, trying to figure out what to do next.

Part of what makes this decision tricky is that in the past year Stupidfresh has been one of a few modalities I've been using to express myself online. I've jumped on the Twitter bandwagon, setup a Tumblr account for some subway haiku (that I have yet to officially tell anyone about), and I also maintain the blog for Theo's photos and videos.

I work with Picasa albums to privately share photos with friends and family, have started buzzing with Buzz, but as of yet have steered clear of Facebook, Flickr and Posterous.

Each of these outlets is for slightly different purposes, and each offers slightly different limitations. I'm questioning what direction to go in here, specifically with this blog. Is it time to roll everything into one web presence? Or should I choose one of these communication methods and roll with it. Hmmmmm.

It's time to evaluate what I'm using the web, and this website, for. Deep thoughts...

I would love to hear from people in the comments on how you're handling this complexity, or if you have ideas on what to do. I'll tell you this much - regardless of which way I go, I'm getting to 300 posts on this thing before March 26th!

Everything

2010-02-10T08:50:00.004-05:00

Let's be honest with each other, shall we? There's a lot of crud on the internet. This morning however, on this glorious snow-day, I found this little gem in my google reader.

Watch and be amazed.

Everything (Ep. 4) from dannyjelinek on Vimeo.

Originally from the awesome "We Love You So" blog.

Infinite Regress Collective Mixtape 2009

2010-02-01T08:46:00.002-05:00

Yeah, that says 2009 up there, not 2010, which means I've been meaning to post this for a few weeks now. In any event...

Our man Tim over at Infinite Regress ran the 3rd annual Collective Mixtape project toward the end of 2009. In a nutshell he asks people to do covers of songs released that calendar year. I had done this in the past, and always look forward to the project as forced excuse to work on some music.

This year I chose to cover "You're so far around the bend" by Brooklyn favorites The National. The track appeared on the Dark was the Night compilation (regular readers know we are oh so fond of that album here at Stupidfresh.)

Without further ado have a listen to my version, which couldn't have been done without the wonders of Garage Band.

So Far Around the Bend (The National) - lippy

Treat your self to a trip over to Infinite Regress and take in the other submissions, which are all great for different reasons.

Spidey Sense

2010-01-30T14:28:00.001-05:00

Spotted on Carlton today.

Stupidfresh Best Songs of 2009

2009-12-22T21:36:00.002-05:00

It's my pleasure to present to you the StupidFresh Best Songs of 2009 list! This was a good year for music. I was spending more time at home (thanks to a certain someone who came to live with us), and that seemed to translate to mining for more music online.

Looking over these selections, a few themes become apparent.

(1) There aren't many new artists included. Not sure what that says about the state of music - you be the judge. That being said, many of our old favorite groups were making songs with a new edge to them. Jay-Z has two (count 'em, two!) tracks included here. His new album really surprised me with it's diversity of styles and forward thinking music.

(2) There's more hip-hop on here than I would've expected. I've been walking around with pennant for the past few years which reads " Hip-hop is dead', but it looks as if there now may be a resurrection. I will now lower, but not release, said pennant.

(3) I still have a place in my heart for quality song-writing, even if it isn't steeped in the acoustic-guitar singer-songwriter aesthetic that I used to savor. In particular, the Rain Machine, Dirty Projectors and Micachu tracks all are exquisitely written but come at you at little but from the left.

There were also a good amount of older songs that came my way in 2009, but aren't new. Don't fret - you can listen to those on the StupidFresh Best Songs of 2009 (new to me edition).

Ok, enough preamble jibber-jabber from me. Press play, listen up and enjoy! And of course, if you like anything you hear support the artists by buying their stuff.

1) Dirty Projectors + David Byrne - Knotty Pine
This is the lead track from the Dark Was the Night compilation that came out last February which produced a slew of great songs (even if they're not all included on this list). If you're new to the unique song writing approach the Dirty Projectors take to their songs, "Knotty Pine" is a great place to start. It's got the slightly jarring time signature, excellent vocals and harmonies (complimented here by David Byrne no less), and those freaky Dave Longstreth guitar lines. If someone asked me what genre this is, I'd say "tweaked-out art-rock with a twist", which admittedly doesn't mean anything at all. But it sure does sound good.

2) Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (ft. Alicia Keys)
Ok, I know this song is a huge radio hit and is now all but ubiquitous. However, it's also completely awesome. In a year where NYC was on a crazy roller-coaster ride, it felt great to end up with a true anthem for the city. Hova's rhyme style is as tight as ever, the music is driving, and that chorus - I mean damn! Makes me feel good to live in the best city in the world.

3) Phoenix - Lisztomania
Even though Phoenix have been making great albums and playing crazy shows for years, 2009 was their breakout. It all seems to go back to that SNL appearance. And then there was the fan made brat-pack video, and then the Brooklyn video response. Its been a long time coming for the little French band that could. Lisztomania is from their newest record called Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - the title alone would've gotten them on this list!

4) Devendra Banhart - Baby
Devendra always ran hot and cold for me. Some of his music is brilliant, and other songs are too out-there for me. And the fact that I peripherally hear about which young starlet he's dating took away from his appeal. All that being said, "Baby" is a perfect little pop-nugget. Picture in your mind your favorite fella or lady-friend, listen to this cut and then smile at the fact you're in love.

5) Kid Cudi - Make Her Say (ft. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak)
Nice lineup! Hip-hop's new wunderkind Kid Cudi takes control of the track declaring "Me first" and we're off. Kanye and Common contribute solid verses here too, and A-Track provides some fine scratches. Remember when scratching was a pre-requisite in a rap song?

6) Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
You may not recognize the name, but you'll know the voice. Amy Millan provides the distinct female vocals in the band Stars. She's been branching out on her own, and this year did a great cover of this ~~Decemberists~~ Death Cab for Cutie track (nice catch John W.!) . A lil' slide guitar and some country twang never hurt anybody right?

7) Micachu & The Shapes - Golden Phone
It's fair to say that Micachu was this year's blogosphere darling (if there can be such a thing). People simply loved her. Listen to "Golden Phone" and it's easy to see why. The sound is fresh, raw and good. And she looks cute and weird, which the bloggers always like. Good for you Micachu.

8) Rain Machine - Smiling Black Faces
Rain Machine is the side-projector of Kyp Malone, better know for his work with TV On the Radio. I've only heard a handful of songs from the full-length, but "Smiling Black Faces" really took a hold of me. The lyrics are deep and challenging, the music is tricky and a touch sloppy, and the overall feeling is powerful.

9) Regina Spektor - Eet
It must be hard being Regina. I'd imagine she feels like she's on the razor's edge when releasing new songs. On one hand, her music has the potential to be too out-there for the masses that now celebrate her. On the other hand, her core fan-base really gravitate to her unique quirks and twitches. So I was glad to listen to her new album Far and marvel at her ability to dance on the razor's edge. This track "Eet" is pure-pop candy.

10) N.A.S.A - Gifted (ft. Kanye West, Santogold, Lykke Li)
This songs got a little somethin' for everyone. An electro dance track runs underneath providing a bed for Kanye to get aggro and nasty, Lykke to be Swedish and sweet, and allows Santogold to do whatever she does (which I can't figure out what it is that people seem to love so much). Even so, "Gifted" is a fun time and that is a good thing.

11) Junior Boys - Hazel
Take a little Depeche Mode, some New Order, a dash of Hot Chip, sprinkle in some Postal Service and stir thoroughly. Serve in a tall lipstick-stained glass and drink in one swallow. This magical combination will produce Junior Boys. Even though I heard they had a rough go of their live show earlier this year in NYC, the album still can't be denied, with this song "Hazel" being a standout.

12) Lee Fields & The Expressions - Ladies
I think he likes ladies.

13) Jay-Z - What We Talkin' About (ft. Luke Steele)
Track #2 from the jigga-man. I was compelled to include this not only for the sweet rhyming syncopation that starts the second verse, but also for that backup track! Was this song written for The Warriors soundtrack? Is this some future ish that I'm not familiar with? Kudos to Jay for going bleeding-edge in the '09.

14) The National - So Far Around the Bend
It would make sense that The National track from the Dark Was the Night compilation would be kick-ass. The album was curated by National members (and twin brothers) Bryce and Aaron Dessner. "So Far Around the Bend" shows the boys stretching out a bit and adding more pieces into the instrumentation. The clarinet with the delay on it really makes it for me on this song. In fact, I liked it so much I did a cover of it! My version will be showing up soon on the 2009 Infinite Regress Covers Mix Tape. For now you should thoroughly enjoy the original.

15) Volcano Choir - Island, IS
This is Justin Vernon on vocals, better known as Bon Iver. But this ain't your daddy's Bon Iver acoustic track - the opening guitar loop will make you aware of that. As Volcano Choir, Vernon makes a song that is hypnotic and dreamy, and makes me feel the slightest bit uncomfortable - which I'm ok with. Mostly.

16) The Streets - Trust Me
Mike Skinner (aka The Streets) used a pretty innovative technique this year when it came to releasing a slew of new tracks he had made. As opposed to releasing an album for purchase, or posting songs to his website, he opted to release songs, one-by-one on his Twitter feed. A blatant shtick? Sure, but it still caught my attention, and a lot of those songs were darn good, "Trust Me" being my favorite. A few weeks after it's debut, Skinner asked fans to remix the song and re-submit back on Twitter. Which I did with pleasure (check my remix here).

17) Dirty Projectors - Two Doves
Sure - I'll bookend this year's best-of list with the Dirty Projectors. I wrote about this song earlier this year here on SF, and at the time I was still unsure about the whole album, even though this track had already won my heart. Turns out all I needed was a little more time. Bitte Ocra is tremendous - there I said it.

*Thanks to Rebecca D. for the awesome illustration! Check out her work at Drawing Challenge.*

Stupidfresh Best Songs of 2009 (new to me edition)

2009-12-22T10:47:00.001-05:00

Welcome to the StupidFresh Best Songs of 2009 (new to me edition)! While I do spend a good amount of time listening to new music, I'm always looking for good songs. It turns out there's quite a bit of material that was released before 2009 (shocker, I know).

In contrast to the straight-up StupidFresh Best Songs of 2009 list, where I seemed to let myself pontificate maybe a bit too much on each track, I'm going to *try* and keep things brief on this list and let the music speak for itself.

Without further ado, enjoy these classic tracks that finally made their way to my ears this year.

1) Ricardo Marrero - Babalonia
And it starts with a boom! I heard this gem sandwiched smack-dab in the middle of O-dub's first Soul-Cast. Killer!

2) Billy Stewart - Summertime
You can thank Big Shanz for this one. Not to paint too broad of a stroke, but Billy Stewart should do a cover of every song ever in his unique scatting, use-way-too-many-words singing style. And for the love of all that is holy, please watch the video (get through the first 45-seconds or so) and marvel at this man's hat and pants.

3) Elbow - One Day Like This
This one was just shy of making the 2009 list, debuting in the grand ol' year of 2008. Anthemic and awesome.

4) MF Doom - Doomsday
Hippity-hop. Hop-hip-hop. Been checking into Doom's back catalog and Doomsday immediately rose to the top.

5) Michael Jackson - I Can't Help It
How could I resist? After MJs passing, his music was everywhere. And while most cars were bumping tracks from Thriller and Bad, I had a chance to discover "I Can't Help It" from the Off The Wall LP. Beyond just being a beautiful song, you may recognize the opening hook which was sampled for De La Soul's "Breakadawn"

6) Jay-Z - 99 Problems (ft. The Dap Kings)
I mean come on. Really - this is too good.

7) John Coltrane - Say It (Over and Over Again)
I was brought to this gorgeous Coltrane ballad by none other than my dad (yeah pops!). Sweet, slow and classic.

8) Archie Whitewater - Track 3
That "Track 3" isn't a typo. This Archie Whitewater song is a mystery track that was never officially released. The mix is a bit low and spotty at times - it's soulful as hell though.

9) Coke Escavado - I Wouldn't Change a Thing
Coke (real-name?) Escavado made one danceable track here. He also made an amazing daughter, one Sheila E. Nice work Coke.

10) Teddy Pendergrass - Turn Off the Lights
This track is the perfect blend of soul, dirty-talk and over-the-top suggestions. I love it. R. Kelly - you're nothing compared to the master.

*Thanks to Rebecca D. for the awesome illustration! Check out her work at Drawing Challenge.*

Making Fashion From Park Slope Food Coop "Shame"

2009-12-03T13:43:00.000-05:00

From Gothamist: Making Fashion From Park Slope Food Coop "Shame": "

Do you feel ashamed and guilty because you haven't been fulfilling your duties as a member of the Park Slope Food Coop? Have you been missing shifts, drinking bottled water, or purchasing Israeli products? Do you feel like horrible person because of it? Here's a way to repent — wear a t-shirt announcing the fact that you've been "suspended at the Coop."

The creator of the tees — which include shirts reading "Active at the Coop," "on alert at the Coop," "Grace Period at the Coop," "Pulling A Double at the Coop," and "Doing A Makeup at the Coop" — didn't make the shirts so that law-abiding coop members could identify shift-missing peers by their Hester Prynne-style garb. But he says he was '[i]nspired by the invisible mark of shame' felt by the writer of a recent Times treatise on rule-breaking Coop members.

You can get the shirts here, and $5 from every purchase will go to a Brooklyn hunger-relief charity.

Unsilent Night is coming

2009-11-24T19:51:00.001-05:00

This is one of the best things that happens in NYC. I did this maybe four years ago with Zweig and we were blown away. Check out all them boom boxes.

This is from a Brooklyn Vegan Post..by Andrew Frisicano

DOWNLOAD: Phil Kline - From Light (MP3)

Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets every December. People bring their own boomboxes and drift peacefully through a cloud of sound which is different from every listener's perspective. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations

The performance, in its 18th year, will happen in 13 North American cities (as of now) this year - with events planned abroad too. Full list of locations below. The Unsilent Night material is available on CD through Cantaloupe Records.

This year's Unsilent Night New York will happen on Saturday, December 12th. The group starts at the Arch in Washington Square Park at 7pm and walks to Tompkins Square Park (approx. by 8pm). The track posted above, 'From Light,' is meant to accompany the group's 'arriving in the quiet of the East Village, 7th Street to Second Avenue.'

Solange Knowles – “Stillness Is The Move” (Dirty Projectors)

2009-11-17T20:52:00.003-05:00

I'm sorry but this is ridiculously dope. I'm totally ripping this post from MBV.

MP3: Solange Knowles – “Stillness Is The Move” (Dirty Projectors): "

Solange Knowles – “Stillness Is The Move” (Dirty Projectors)Bag Lady.” Beyonce’s sister Solange takes on the Dirty Projectors’ hit “Stillness Is The Move,” via a pseudo-mashup with Erykah Badu’s classic “

(via P4K)

Black Gold - Idols

2009-11-17T08:37:00.002-05:00

Always great to see what creative endeavors my friends are up to, but I had no idea that I had gold sitting in my inbox this morning. Black Gold that is.

My friend Tamara from waaaay back just completed this music video for Brooklyn locals Black Gold for their song "Idols". It's gorgeous and is a typographical wonderland. The song is really good too, especially the Beatles-esque bridge.

Great job Tamara!

What up With That? I love it!

2009-11-16T16:45:00.003-05:00

A few weeks ago I posted this tweet, previous to seeing a certain skit on SNL. Karma? Coincidence? Serendipity?

Then I followed with this tweet.

And now, a few weeks later, I still can't stop watching it. Maybe it's because I sing songs like this in my head all day long. Or that this most closely approximates the alternate reality I wish I lived in. Regardless, this to me is pure genius.

I had a friend when I lived in Vermont who had a dream in which I was an R&B singer with a 12-piece back up band. We were called "Matt Lipstein and the Jews-Who-Groove." Marinate on that!

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T12:06:00.000-04:00

Leaving my house today for errands and I bumped into the hot dog gang.
That's death dog on the far right.

Deneuve.

2009-10-22T07:48:00.000-04:00

Deneuve

From a great blog called The Impossible Cool which showcases photos of people being, well, cool.

This just looked fun to me this morning.

Big hats. There ain't nothing wrong with them. I kind of always want a 10-gallon hat around in case of an emergency. As much as my Texan relatives will cringe when they read this, I'd also like that 10-gallon hat to be made out of foam.

Duck Sauce - I've got the Time

2009-10-11T09:19:00.003-04:00

This is our new favorite video around the house.

The Berlin Reunion

2009-10-07T12:57:00.003-04:00

It feels so good to read about people doing it. I mean really doing it, you know? Something artsy & creative, larger than life and steeped in imagination. Making the banal beautiful, na'mean?

That's how I felt earlier today when I saw the images on one of my favorite photography blogs, The Big Picture (who I've featured here on SF before).

Their description today's photoset entitled The Berlin Reunion is:

Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled "The Berlin Reunion". Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by "land and sea monsters". The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult - but successful - expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart. I'll let the photos below tell the rest of the story. (35 photos total)

Here are my two favorite images (click on each for a larger image), but you should check out the whole set and feel good that creativity is alive and well:

RIP Patrick Swayze

2009-09-15T15:22:00.003-04:00

We all knew this day was coming. Patrick Swayze has passed on after a valiant battle with cancer (which he was also working as an actor through).

Oh the Swayz, how much joy you've given us. While most will remember you for the obligatory box-office successes of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, I enjoy digging slightly deeper into your catalog.

Your portrayal of Bodhi in Point Break was amazing. Check this sock puppet rendition of the film if you haven't seen it and want a primer.

Kicking ass in Roadhouse was also thrilling to watch. In this capacity you also gave us the line "Pain don't hurt".
And what was lauded by some as your come-back role, the work you did as motivational speaker Jim Cunningham in Donnie Darko will be considered timeless in my book (in particular the moment in the montage where your character cries alone in his living room).

Patrick Swayze, thanks for all you've given us. you will be missed.

Oh snap - in looking for images I realized I forgot to mention Swayze's amazing SNL Chippendale's skit with Chris Farley

And the brilliant original song from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, "She's Like the Wind" Yeah - Patrick also knew how to write a kick-ass ballad too. Damn - what a talent.

Not my usual - Bonnie Pointer

2009-09-11T23:31:00.003-04:00

There are so many things I like about this song.

The two harmonics that open the song (which happen to be exactly the same ones used on Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" many years later)
The bass is way up front and center in the mix - very unusual but the licks are so tasty!
The use of the "Boooooooo" disco noise made popular in Anita Bell's "Ring My Bell"
The fact that its sung by Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters
The elusive nature of trying to categorize it. Country? Pop Ballad? R&B? All of the above.

Even the sappy lyrics seem to work here. I don't usually go in for this type of track, but if you can look beyond the fluffy top layer, there is a lot going on with this song.

Give it a shot and hit me up in the comments with your thoughts.

Bonnie Pointer - More and More

Video of second largest aquarium tank in the world

2009-09-11T23:25:00.000-04:00

This is real people.

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

Coolest Michael Jackson shirt ever

2009-08-31T09:03:00.000-04:00

Happy 51st birthday Michael!

Cop this from Turntablelab.com. Their review:

Heist & Co. get in on the MJ Tribute action, with a cartoon version of the man with his iconic leather jacket on the front, and then in teenwolf mode from the "Thriller" video on the back. Printed on standard fit cotton shirts.

Three Frames

2009-08-26T09:08:00.004-04:00

Just got put onto this awesome blog called Three Frames. They take three frames from movies and make them into an animated .gif. The result is intoxicating, kind of like a digital lenticular.

I have a special place in my heart for lenticulars, which are those ridged images printed on cards that seem to shift as you tilt them one way or the other.

It's also fun to say - try it once, out loud, right now.

"Len-tic-u-lar"

No one will think you're weird, I promise.

Don't stare at these too long or, as they say in Texas, you'll have a fit.

I got this from We Love You So who got it via twbe